agents sent by President Donald Trump left the city the previous week. One year ago: Authorities said protesters in Portland, Oregon, barricaded about 20 police officers inside a precinct and tried to set it on fire police used tear gas on the crowd for the first time since U.S. (Juno reached Jupiter on July 4, 2016.)įive years ago: The opening ceremony for the Summer Olympics took place in Rio de Janeiro as Brazil laced its high-energy party with a sobering message of the dangers of global warming. (The convictions were overturned because of prosecutorial misconduct, and the former officers pleaded guilty in April 2016 to a reduced number of charges.) The sun-powered robotic explorer Juno rocketed toward Jupiter on a five-year quest to discover the secret recipe for making planets. A federal jury convicted three New Orleans police officers, a former officer and a retired sergeant of civil rights violations in the 2005 shooting deaths of a teenager and a mentally disabled man crossing the Danziger Bridge following Hurricane Katrina. Ten years ago: Standard & Poor’s lowered the United States’ AAA credit rating by one notch to AA-plus. In 2019, Toni Morrison, the first Black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize, died at 88 in New York her novels included “Beloved,” and “The Bluest Eye.” Thirty-three workers were trapped in a copper mine in northern Chile after a tunnel caved in (all were rescued after being entombed for 69 days). In 2010, the Senate confirmed Elena Kagan, 63-37, as the Supreme Court’s 112th justice and the fourth woman in its history. In 2002, the coral-encrusted gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised from the floor of the Atlantic, nearly 140 years after the historic warship sank during a storm. (A task force later concluded there was “no credible evidence” of such a deal.) In 1991, Democratic congressional leaders formally launched an investigation into whether the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign had secretly conspired with Iran to delay release of American hostages until after the presidential election, thereby preventing an “October surprise” that supposedly would have benefited President Jimmy Carter. In 1981, the federal government began firing air traffic controllers who had gone out on strike. Haldeman, had discussed a plan in June 1972 to use the CIA to thwart the FBI’s Watergate investigation revelation of the tape sparked Nixon’s resignation.

In 1974, the White House released transcripts of subpoenaed tape recordings showing that President Richard Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. became the first American flier to be shot down and captured by North Vietnam he was held prisoner until February 1973. In 1954, 24 boxers became the first inductees into the Boxing Hall of Fame, including Henry Armstrong, Gentleman Jim Corbett, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Joe Louis and John L.

Oneida daily dispatch feb 14th 2016